Jordyn Burnouf, an Indigenous leader in clean energy, climate and community divides her time between many impactful pursuits including advising the Vice President of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan, Co-Charing Student Energy’s SevenGen Indigenous Youth Energy Summit, starting a new podcast with the David Suzuki Foundation, advising Efficiency Canada and getting out onto the land as a guide with her family’s land-based camp.
Jordyn shares how being connected to the land is important for her work and she shares what’s at risk when we lose our connection to land and it’s teachings. Those teachings can come from time spent on the land, as Jordyn describes:
“You need to get out on a canoe and you need to struggle for hours, and there's lessons in that. You need to get outside and be rained on, you need to get outside and experience the earth for all her beauty and all of that struggle, because that's what it's really about.”
She shares why Indigenous perspectives, knowledge and leadership matter for a just, clean energy transition and what the biggest opportunity is for non-Indigenous people to learn from Indigenous teachings on the topic of climate.
Be sure to follow Jordyn on Instagram and Twitter and visit her website: https://jordynburnouf.com/
